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Description A small pale celadon jade carving of a recumbent deer
Qing Dynasty, 18th century
清十八世紀 青白玉靈鹿銜芝擺件
naturalistically carved in the round with its head raised and holding a branch of lingzhi in its mouth?
4.1 cm wide
Condition Report There are some minute nicks to the edges and raised parts of the carving, and a thin natural vein running across the front hoofs.
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Provenance James Stewart Hodgson (1827-1899);
Agatha, Marchioness of Sligo (1866-1965).